Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection

Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection

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HERBERT BAYER | 'IN SEARCH OF TIMES PAST'

Auction Closed

July 14, 05:43 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

HERBERT BAYER

1900-1985

'IN SEARCH OF TIMES PAST'


a unique object, with collaged photographs, halftone prints, and hand-applied gouache and ink, mounted, titled and dated in pencil on the mount, framed, 1959

9½ by 13⅜ in. (24.1 by 34 cm.)

Christie's New York, 15 April 1992, Sale 7428, Lot 41

This unique object:

Leland Rice and Beaumont Newhall, herbert bayer: photographic works (Los Angeles, 1976), cover

Gwen F. Chanzit, From Bauhaus to Aspen: Herbert Bayer and Modernist Design in America (Denver Art Museum, 2005), cover 


Later prints:

Gwen F. Chanzit, Herbert Bayer: Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum (Denver Art Museum, 1988), p. 169, ph. 1.7

Cynthia Wayne, Dreams, Lies, and Exaggerations: Photomontage in America (The Art Gallery, University of Maryland College Park, 1991), p. 42, cat. 12

Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller and Bernhard Widder, ahoi herbert! bayer und die moderne (Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, 2009), p. 381

Los Angeles, Arco Center for Visual Art, herbert bayer: photographic works, April - May 1977, and traveling thereafter to:

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, November 1977 - January 1978

Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, February - April 1978

Portland Art Museum, April - May 1978

Roswell Museum and Art Center, June - September 1978

Brookings, South Dakota Memorial Art Center, September - November 1978

San Antonio, Witte Memorial Museum, November - December 1978

Iowa City, Museum of Art, University of Iowa, January - March 1979

Arlington, University Art Gallery, March - April 1979

Tucson, Center for Creative Photography, May - July 1979

Barnaby, British Columbia, Centre for the Arts / The Simon Fraser Gallery, August - September 1979

Seattle Art Museum, October - November 1979

San Jose Museum of Art, December 1979 - January 1980

Indianapolis Museum of Art, February - March 1980

Middletown, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, March - May 1980

Providence, Museum of Art / Rhode Island School of Design, May - July 1980

Louisville, The J. B. Speed Art Museum, July - August 1980

Springfield Art Museum, September - October 1980

Wichita, Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art, November - December 1980

Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, January - February 1981